I'm having my first go at making a Discord bot. The code is very basic, just a bot that logs its own tag into the console upon startup:

const Discord = require("discord.js");

const TOKEN = "REDACTED"

const client = new Discord.Client({
    intents: ["GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES"]
})

client.on("ready", () => {
    console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}`)
})

client.login(TOKEN)

Upon typing node index.js into the VSCode terminal, however, I am given the following error:

PS C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter> node index.js
C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168
    throw new RangeError(ErrorCodes.BitFieldInvalid, bit);
    ^

RangeError [BitFieldInvalid]: Invalid bitfield flag or number: GUILDS.
    at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168:11)
    at C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:54
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:40)
    at Client._validateOptions (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:481:41)
    at new Client (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:78:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\index.js:9:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1112:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1166:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32) {
  [Symbol(code)]: 11
}

Node.js v18.4.0

I have installed discord.js with the command npm i discord.js so I'm using v14.

I'm having my first go at making a Discord bot. The code is very basic, just a bot that logs its own tag into the console upon startup:

const Discord = require("discord.js");

const TOKEN = "REDACTED"

const client = new Discord.Client({
    intents: ["GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES"]
})

client.on("ready", () => {
    console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}`)
})

client.login(TOKEN)

Upon typing node index.js into the VSCode terminal, however, I am given the following error:

PS C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter> node index.js
C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168
    throw new RangeError(ErrorCodes.BitFieldInvalid, bit);
    ^

RangeError [BitFieldInvalid]: Invalid bitfield flag or number: GUILDS.
    at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168:11)
    at C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:54
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:40)
    at Client._validateOptions (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:481:41)
    at new Client (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:78:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\index.js:9:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1112:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1166:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32) {
  [Symbol(code)]: 11
}

Node.js v18.4.0

I have installed discord.js with the command npm i discord.js so I'm using v14.

• javascript
• node.js
• discord
• discord.js

• I've just tested your code in both v12 and v13 of discord.js and there was no error at all, worked as expected. – Zsolt Meszaros Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 8:24
• 1 Please change your token as you have leaked it! – Caladan Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 10:27
• 1 Please make sure, you refresh your token as it's exposed in your last edit! – Zsolt Meszaros Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 18:46

3 Answers 3

In discord.js v14, intent flags are available from GatewayIntentBits.

const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require('discord.js');

const client = new Discord.Client({
  intents: [
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
  ]
})

List of changes:

the solution I've found based on the documentation is :

const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require("discord.js");

const client = new Client({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
    ]});

Hope it helps

Based on the documentation, you can't use strings for intent names, but you import them from the package, so in your case something like

const Discord = require('discord.js');

const client = new Discord.Client({ intents: [
  Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS,
  Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES,
]});

should do the trick.